CONNECT: For searching through the reams of clip art and images supplied with the suite.

PowerTRACE: For converting bitmaps to vectors.

Font Manager 2017: For managing fonts, surprisingly.

There’s quite a bit going for PHOTO-PAINT its creative tools are solid and its typography options excellent. New in this version is a Healing tool, which enables the quick editing of blemishes a Perspective correction tool that gives you a grid-based dialog to fix distortions in photos and a Gaussian Blur lens – a paintable mask that enables you to blur areas of your images non-destructively. As are the tools, in fact, as they share many similarities with Adobe’s behemoth. It’s actually a very capable alternative to Photoshop, and if you’re switching over the interface is easy to adapt to. It’s worth mentioning the other tools in the suite, most notably PHOTO-PAINT 17. More intuitive interactive sliders for gradients, blends, transparency and so on wrap up a decent release – but it’s really the LiveSketch tool that steals the limelight.

Each node has a distinct appearance depending on the handle or selection type, and the size, colours and shapes of the editing points are customisable via Options. Smarter nodes make for a quick editing workflowĪnd once you’ve got your vectors down, smarter nodes make for a quick editing workflow.

Corel photo paint 2017